Tech Events at World Trade Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam

AI Builders' two-day buildathon at the World Trade Center on Strawinskylaan: challenge briefing and one-minute pitches, team matching over a sponsored lunch, then build time with a vibecoding workshop at 14:00 and a hardware workshop at 15:00, dinner, an overnight hack session, and demos and judging from 16:00 on the second day. Doors 10:45. Run by AI Builders Club, the volunteer community behind more than a hundred meetups and hackathons a year across Amsterdam, Berlin, London, Lisbon, Rotterdam and Miami. 10 euro, 5 euro for students - a contribution that covers venue and food rather than a ticket price. Why go: two days with hardware on the table and overnight build time is a different thing from an evening hackathon, and teams form in the room rather than beforehand. Expects you to be comfortable with LLMs, RAG and agents.

A two-day business-growth summit at the World Trade Center on Strawinskylaan, aimed at founders and commercial leaders looking for partnerships, investment and distribution. The programme mixes stage content with structured matchmaking. From 09:00, tickets 210 euro. Why go: the matchmaking is the product here rather than the talks, so it earns its place if you arrive with a specific ask - a distribution partner, a first enterprise customer, an investor conversation. Best for founders and commercial leads actively selling or raising; skip it if you want technical content.

The Netherlands' main fintech gathering returns to the World Trade Center for two days under the banner of building the new financial infrastructure. Run by the Holland Fintech Association, AFE pulls together banks, PSPs, regulators, infrastructure providers and the startups selling into all of them — which makes it the most efficient place in the Dutch calendar to cover the whole stack in one go. Relevant well beyond fintech specialists: anyone selling software into financial services will find the buyers here.

A fast-paced pitch afternoon at the World Trade Center in Amsterdam's Zuidas business district, where early-stage founders take the stage in front of investors, corporates and fellow entrepreneurs. Run as part of the I amsterdam business calendar, it pairs short pitches with structured networking, so the value is as much in who is in the room as in the pitches themselves. Useful for founders sharpening their story and for investors and operators wanting an efficient read on what is coming out of the Amsterdam pipeline right now.

The City of Amsterdam, WTC Amsterdam and nlmtd put innovative corporates, startup-friendly investors and founders around the same dinner tables. Curated seating rather than a standing drinks crowd — the point is that the introductions actually land.